The latest novel by the American star of the detective novel is actually his first. The novel origins, it is preferred the most successful ...
Useless, of course, present Harlan Coben. It is present, sometimes size, the shelves of every bookstore thriller. In recent years, he became the master of the genre, the virtuoso suspense, and especially the king of speed. For COBEN, which should make our Amelie Nothomb green with envy, published a novel a year, without fail, and publishing houses, leaving of course, never spend the golden egg of a hen talented, have emerged from the unpublished (in French) inundating us cobeniens thrillers, sometimes without regard to chronology. No bowl for the French-speaking reader who reads the adventures of the sympathetic Myron Bolitar, former basketball star turned into a sports agent and an investigator with the force of things, in the order in which translations come out and get lost, so, sometimes, in complicated love Myron said. But the author also writes novels "one shot", featuring characters we will never see again ... almost. Because, and all readers will agree, a book to another, the characters are strangely similar. Many doctors and (ex) champions sports charming, funny and having the repartee ; Many women feature a "sublime silhouette" and a "face irresistibly exotic charm" which prevents them from ever having a sacred character and a real intellect. In short, individuals to whom the smile but that usually falls on a terrible tile. As for style, it sometimes lacks a little finesse.
And yet ... ! Yet Harlan Coben has shown us, and several times, his undeniable talent. Some of his books are masterpieces of the genre. COBEN mastered the art of intrigue and suspense like nobody (or almost). His style, though rather flat, however, is dynamic and some of his dialogues especially pleasurable. And if his characters are a bit manufactured, they are so nice that we have enough desire to believe in them to cling to and hope they come out head up trouble where they are filled.
Thus, novels like Do not tell anyone (very well adapted for film by Guillaume Canet), Gone forever or Second Chance have to spend many sleepless nights even the most skeptical (I was part ...). Reading Harlan Coben can become a terrible addiction, more dangerous than the prolixity of the author is publishing novels sometimes well below its capacity.
But back to this last issue. Earlier Without a farewell (translations of the titles are unfortunately the least repetitive: Without a goodbye without a word, no forwarding address ,...) the author warns " OK, if you have not read anything from me, stop right away. Let this book. Take another one. It does not matter. I'll wait. If you're still here, know that I have not read without a farewell for a good twenty years. I did not want to rewrite it. It is a process that I hate. " says it all: this is the first novel by the author still "ingenuous young working in tourism "and since become the star we know. Hence to say that publishers have told their colt: " Harlan gives us anything, it takes " and went COBEN that old manuscript out dated, there is only one step.
And yet ... ! Yet Harlan Coben has shown us, and several times, his undeniable talent. Some of his books are masterpieces of the genre. COBEN mastered the art of intrigue and suspense like nobody (or almost). His style, though rather flat, however, is dynamic and some of his dialogues especially pleasurable. And if his characters are a bit manufactured, they are so nice that we have enough desire to believe in them to cling to and hope they come out head up trouble where they are filled.
Thus, novels like Do not tell anyone (very well adapted for film by Guillaume Canet), Gone forever or Second Chance have to spend many sleepless nights even the most skeptical (I was part ...). Reading Harlan Coben can become a terrible addiction, more dangerous than the prolixity of the author is publishing novels sometimes well below its capacity.
But back to this last issue. Earlier Without a farewell (translations of the titles are unfortunately the least repetitive: Without a goodbye without a word, no forwarding address ,...) the author warns " OK, if you have not read anything from me, stop right away. Let this book. Take another one. It does not matter. I'll wait. If you're still here, know that I have not read without a farewell for a good twenty years. I did not want to rewrite it. It is a process that I hate. " says it all: this is the first novel by the author still "ingenuous young working in tourism "and since become the star we know. Hence to say that publishers have told their colt: " Harlan gives us anything, it takes " and went COBEN that old manuscript out dated, there is only one step.
Laura, a former supermodel, and David, superstar team of the Celtics, spent their honeymoon in Australia. But David and hand swim .. . does not return. It concludes that death by drowning. When Laura returns to the United States, unable to admit the drama, she investigates the disappearance of her man and resurrects old family secrets.
be found in this "origins of the novel" many features cobenniennes: rich and beautiful characters, a convoluted plot full of twists. Aficionados have fun even recognize some characters that will feature in his later works. Alas, the style here is very poor, the characters really artificial and above height of horeur, the plot is both predictable and implausible. It happened something that had never happened before (and I think I've read all his work): I almost included from the outset.
Harlan Coben is right: if you have never read anything by him, take something else ... For others, my faith, enjoy it (But you try it lends the novel ...).
Thanks anyway to editions Belfond for sending us this novel.
be found in this "origins of the novel" many features cobenniennes: rich and beautiful characters, a convoluted plot full of twists. Aficionados have fun even recognize some characters that will feature in his later works. Alas, the style here is very poor, the characters really artificial and above height of horeur, the plot is both predictable and implausible. It happened something that had never happened before (and I think I've read all his work): I almost included from the outset.
Harlan Coben is right: if you have never read anything by him, take something else ... For others, my faith, enjoy it (But you try it lends the novel ...).
Thanks anyway to editions Belfond for sending us this novel.
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